How much of a breed specific cat health problem is hepatic amyloidosis in Siamese and Oriental Shorthair cats? It should be rare, very rare ...

Photo: Priority Pet Hospital Cat health problems from the perspective of a cat owner usually revolve around a core set of issues. There...

Ear mites are highly contagious between different animals but are rarely on people. They can be found on rabbits, dogs and ferrets for examp...

Here is a list of cat bacterial infections . Salmonella   - causes a gastrointestinal infection. It is more prevalent in crowded unhygieni...

Yes, declawing in the UK is illegal under the Animal Welfare Act 2006. The operation to declaw a cat would fall under section 4 - Unnecessar...

Cat life expectancy is dependent on the individual cat and the cat's circumstances. We all know that feral cats live very short lives on...

My cat broke his leg. People use this phrase on the Internet to find out what to do. It has never happened to my cats. My cat broke her paw ...

A number of allergens can affect the domestic cat. The most obvious are allergens in food, airborne allergens, contact with chemicals such a...

Yes, they do. It's normal. In my experience you don't get the sound effects that accompany the human version! They are no more sti...

The answer is yes, under certain conditions. They are supposed to pant when hot and/or stressed or frightened. Panting is a normal event ...

We don't know for sure why cats eat grass. The best theory is as follows. Grass contains a vitamin called folic acid. Domestic cats chew...

What percentage of cats have toxoplasmosis? This is a question that people ask on the Internet. There are no clear answers. A research pap...

You lookin at my nose...! Clear off. Photo: by Tomi Tapio Are cats noses supposed to be wet? No. My healthy cats have very slightly mo...

The rickettsial organism Bartonella henselae causes cat scratch fever. The organism is between a virus and a bacteria in type. It is in inf...

If a cat has lactase enzyme deficiency (meaning lactose intolerant) it can cause diarrhea. Lactase breaks down the milk sugar before absorpt...

White cats with two blue eyes have a 85% – 64.9%  chance of being deaf in both or one ear.  White cats with one blue eye have about a 40% ch...

Thirty-two percent of all cats in the United States that are over 10 years of age will die from a type of cancer. That answers the question ...

The elfin faced Devon Rex can suffer from the autosomal (non-sex linked) recessive genetic defect called hereditary myopathy. The signs a...

Burmese cats can inherit through an autosomal recessive gene a condition called hypokalemic myopathy . The signs are evident at about 3 to...

We shouldn't really be thinking about cat separation anxiety treatment. We should be thinking about how to remove the cause of the cat s...